Mr. Pudlat lived nomadically for the first years of his life. Most artists told me they dreamed of this, making enough money to buy a snowmobile or a boat to get back to the land. Even Mr. Pudlat planned to return to construction, and create art on the side. Initially, I wondered why, with all that talent, Cape Dorset had not been saved by art. By the end, the question I asked myself was how, against all the odds, the artists of Cape Dorset kept producing such spectacular work.

Source: New York Times October 25, 2019 20:03 UTC